A comprehensive, survivor-centric approach to addressing violence against women is urgently needed, following the recent shooting at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA).
The Women’s Aid Organisation (WAO), in a statement last night, said the approach must also include preventive measures, enhanced victim support services, and robust legal enforcement.
“Nationwide campaigns, legal reforms, and enhanced survivor support mechanisms to prevent violence against women must remain a top priority, aimed at addressing the root causes of violence against women.
“Survivor-centric services, including counselling, legal assistance and shelter provisions must be made available to survivors to ensure their safety and well-being,” the statement read.
WAO reiterated that violence against women as well as gender-based violence are grave violations of human rights and are barriers to achieving gender equality and social justice.
As such, the group conveyed its willingness to work closely with the National Domestic Violence Committee, set up by the Women, Family, and Community Development Ministry, along with relevant stakeholders, to create a society where every woman can live free from violence and fear.
In the 1.30am shooting incident on April 14, a man fired two shots at his wife at the entrance of the KLIA arrival hall but missed, with one of the shots hitting her bodyguard in the abdomen.
The man who was arrested yesterday over the incident has been remanded for seven days.
- Bernama
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